Syag > Everyone has heard how the chofetz chaim treated the yid who broke shabbos.
True, but he has limits also. He visited a Jewish commissar who was taking Yeshiva boys into Soviet army and said that he did not come to give tochacha as he realizes it is not going to help, but he come because when the commissar will be accused in Shemayim, he will defend himself – if Ch. H were to give me tochacha, I would have done teshuva. “So I came to take this defense from you”. Of course, this can be interpreted as a round-about way to cause teshuva….